INTRODUCTION

DISPATCHES FROM DYSTOPIA, dispatchesfromdystopia.net, which evolved during the past eight years from the less sharply focused "Outside Agitator's Notebook," has become precisely what this blog's new title and domain name describes. It is an ongoing anthology of reports, analyses, commentaries, photographs and other anti-Capitalist testimony from the Dystopia that Capitalism has made of our world. It's epicenter is the post-humanitarian United States of America: our species' self-inflicted Moron Nation and its empire of global-conquest malevolence, the de facto Fourth Reich, the true birthdate of which will eventually be recognized – if indeed our species somehow miraculously survives the present era – as 22 November 1963.
¶Dispatches thus chronicles our relentless subjugation by Capitalism as it (inevitably) reverts to its traditional might-makes-right savagery and – just as Capitalism previously transformed itself into Italian Fascism and German Nazism – as it now matures into a Nazism of uniquely USian form and content. By examining the details of what is occurring, DfD shows how ours is a Dystopia characterized as much by the mindlessness of Moron Nation's Zieg-Heil-equivalent chanting of “USA! USA! USA!” as by the brutality such chanting invariably celebrates – the genocidal, ultimately ecocidal atrocities the Capitalist Ruling Class perpetrates in the name of “profit,” “growth” and USian “Exceptionalism.”
¶Why “USian” rather than American? Because to call this exceptionally fascist empire “America” is to slander as fascists or Nazis all humanitarian-minded peoples of North and South America who valiantly and often fatally resist USiaNazi enslavement. And, yes, “humanitarian” versus “anti-humanitarian” are the only terms that adequately differentiate the two now eternally hostile subspecies into which Capitalism has finally divided Homo sapiens sapiens. On one side are those of us who cling to the so-called Golden Rule and its variants, “do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” the ultimate form of which is Marxism's “from each according to ability, too each according to need.” On the other side are the moral imbeciles – Nazis, fascists, Ayn Rand disciples and all the other psychological zombies that are Capitalism's unique and uniquely apocalyptic spawn.
¶But what then is Capitalism? Though traditionally defined as economics, it is in fact the quintessential patriarchal ethos, the diabolical methodology of building a global empire by conquest and genocide both obvious and clandestine, with post-conquest world governance originally patterned after the despotic management of antebellum slave plantations. Capitalism is thus the forefather of fascism and Nazism, its only possible offspring. Behind its seductive cloak of euphemisms and Big Lies (“manifest destiny,” “easy credit,” “economic freedom,” “self-made man,” “entrepreneur,” “no down payment,” “rugged individualist,” “you too can be rich,” “free will,” etc. ad nauseam), Capitalism is the stench of burning flesh and rotting corpses; the shrieks of napalmed children; the despair of families evicted into the permanent degradation, filth, deadly danger of untreated disease and constant fear of enslavement by arrest or kidnapping that defines USian homelessness; the final agonies of maliciously abandoned patients condemned to death by the deliberately genocidal costs of health care.
¶Ultimately Capitalism is the boundless Evil of global dictatorship by the Christian white male One Percent, a tiny, ruthless cabal of Capitalist aristocrats for whom infinite greed is ultimate virtue and for whom the snuff-film sadism of class warfare provides the ultimate entertainment. Under Capitalism's Fukushima-deadly, Ayn Rand credo of serial-killer moral imbecility – absolute power and unlimited profit for the One Percent and its Ruling Class vassals, zero-tolerance oppression and bottomless poverty for all the rest of us – these obscenely wealthy despots now impose on us their increasingly overt paradigm of Nazi governance. Not that We the (formerly exempt) People should be surprised; the merciless regimen that is now ours is how the Capitalists have always tyrannized our sisters and brothers in America's First Nations, in the USian ghettos and in all the Capitalist victim realms abroad.
¶Moreover our plight is of our own making. We the People long ago surrendered to our Capitalist overlords. We submit to denial of health care that is everywhere else on this planet deemed a human right; we submit to enslavement by debt; to the outsourcing of our jobs; to bankruptcy; to foreclosure; to eviction and homelessness; to imprisonment in numbers hitherto unequaled in human history; and most of all to the biggest Big Lie of all – the suicidal delusion we somehow remain free despite the Capitalists' no-longer-deniable theft of our liberty and their snickering revocation of the few prefaces to economic democracy our now-powerless unions had once managed to win. Our confinement is ensured, not just by our cowardice but by the invisible but inescapable cage of total surveillance: the electronic barbed wire that has reduced our entire planet to a monstrous concentration camp.
¶Cast off as “surplus human capital” when we are deemed no longer exploitable for profit, we are then methodically exterminated. We are slaughtered as cannon-fodder in the empire's endless wars of profit and conquest; we are murdered by the bullets and truncheons of the federalized and militarized local police; we are fatally poisoned by Capitalism's malignant toxification of our environment; we are slain by denials of health care and social services that are in fact deliberate, euphemism-cloaked policies of slow-motion genocide.
¶Meanwhile our overlords pornographically multiply their own wealth by knowingly destroying the planetary conditions upon which all sentient life depends. More recently – as if to demonstrate the infinite magnitude of their Evil by provoking unsurvivable thermonuclear apocalypse (and not coincidentally in fulfillment of a malevolent scheme by Adolf Hitler himself) – they have imposed on the Ukraine the anti-Russian war-mongering and anti-Jewish violence of an avowedly Nazi puppet government. And now, in the person of Donald Trump and his appointees, the USian tyrannosaur has come home to gorge on its final and terminally ironic meal, the denizens of Moron Nation itself, the people who by their prideful ignorance and hatefulness loosed this demonically insatiable monster on the entire world.
But in these times our ability to effectively resist is obstructed not only by the USian regime of inescapable surveillance, but by the dreadful undertow of Moron Nation's intellectual and psychological paralysis: the deliberate deceptions and outright ignorance fostered by the Capitalist “education” system; by Capitalism's “mainstream media” propaganda machine (which is owned by the same smirking plutocrats whose vassal politicians so gleefully oppress us); and by the physical and psychic terrorism of Capitalism's manufactured crises.
¶Yet resist we must. As always, art – sometimes even unwittingly – depicts our present circumstances and so foretells our future. And as it says in a breathtakingly apt, wrenchingly poignant anthem grown increasingly popular far beyond its video-game origin, “shadows fall and hope is gone; steel your heart; the dawn will come.”

"...our relentless subjugation by capitalism..."We the People have been reduced to slavery and serfdom by Capitalist governance -- absolute power and unlimited profit for the One Percent and their Ruling Class vassals, zero-tolerance oppression for all the rest of us -- and the CIA's Operation Chaos exemplifies Capitalism's darkest and most malevolent aspects.

These are some of the very few photographs that survived the 1983 fire that destroyed my life's work, not just most of my pictures but nearly all my writing including two books in progress and all the associated research. Some of these photos shown here escaped the flames because they were with me in my portfolio case; others were produced digitally from negatives dug out of the rubble a year later. The images of obvious print-quality were made on DuPont Varilure paper, which had the highest silver content of all commercial papers and thus produced such intense tonalities, they often seemed illuminated by their own internal light sources. But that sort of photographic quality is now forever beyond our common reach, either gone like Varilure or so prohibitively expensive it is available only to the obscenely pampered dilettantes who produce the aesthetic pabulum favored by the One Percent. Photography as I knew it is dead -- as dead as my career was after the fire and its ensuing clinical depression -- but this body of work provides a glimpse of what was lost and what might have been. All photos copyright Loren Bliss.

In photography, a sandwich is a collage made by printing two or more negatives simultaneously. Collage is a medium that has fascinated me for as long as I can remember -- probably since I was a child experimenting with finger paints, glue and newspapers -- but I never took it seriously until, sometime in my early 20s and still thinking myself a painter-to-be, I discovered the works of Jasper Johns. Now it seems to me making sandwiches is to conventional photography what poetry is to prose: not just an intellectual exercise, but the opening of a doorway to the Mysterious Otherness I know as the Muse, from whom (sometimes in fulfilment of that McLuhanesque notion of art as prophecy) the currents of real creation invariably flow, whether swift and startling as a lightening strike or slow and soft as cottonwood seeds adrift on subtle summer air. (Collage and photographic sandwiches copyright Loren Bliss 2009-2012.)

When I returned to New York City in 1965 I was immediately impressed by the contrast between the graffiti I had encountered "out in America" -- the South and Middle West -- and what I saw in Manhattan. While the form and content of graffiti is sociologically important – possibly a semiotic indicator without peer -- I found the graffiti of Manhattan singularly appealing, the intellectual and aesthetic equivalents of a long-overdue breath of fresh air, and within a few days I had begun documenting it with 35mm and 120 film. (The opening photograph of this series was obviously made far from Manhattan, but I included it to establish an essential contrast.) Many more details about this particular body of work, which I briefly resumed when I went back to the City again in 1983, then abandoned after that year's career-terminating fire, are in my post of January 7, 2010. Yes I regard the best urban graffiti as genuine art, but too much of it, alas, is nothing more than a human variant on the mammalian practice of marking territory with spurts of urine: "I wuz here." All photos by Loren Bliss, copyright dates as noted.

Supporters of health care reform and a much smaller number of health care reform's opponents -- each faction identified by its picket-signs -- gathered for the "town hall" meeting called by U.S. Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) in Lakewood on August 25, 2009. Originally set for Lakewood City Hall, the event was rescheduled and moved to Lang Stadium to accommodate an unprecedented mobilization of pro-reform people. Cops estimated the crowd at about 2500. Photos by Loren Bliss copyright 2009.

Best Site for Suppressed Assassination FactsThe late Mae Brussell was our most relentless researcher into the murder of President John Kennedy and many other such outrages. Her legacy is a damning list of the USian Empire's darkest secrets.

Best, Most Thorough Documentation on the CIA's Destruction of the 1960s Counterculture Ms. Brussel outdid herself in her nobody-dares-publish-it investigative report exposing how the CIA's Operation Chaos destroyed the 1960s Counterculture. (My assumption is the Agency, with its Ivy-League analysts and their knowledge of pagan mythology, recognized the Counterculture's anti-patriarchal, resurrection-of-the-Goddess direction, understood it as a far greater threat to Capitalism than Marxism and responded with the murderous efficiency inherited from Gestapo predecessors.)

Communist Labor Party Communism as it is evolving in the United States after the murder of the American Dream and the slaying of the U.S. experiment in representative democracy.

Consortium News Superb reporting and analysis. Founder/Editor Robert Parry exposed Reagan's Iran-Contra scheming and has been persecuted by the capitalists ever since.

der SpiegelMainstream German newspaper that is often a valuable source of news about Western European politics.

Global ResearchA genuinely independent news site -- neither definitively Left nor Right -- that often covers stories suppressed by U.S. Mainstream Media, which (let us never forget), is owned by the same One Percenters who own the Democratic (sic) and Republican parties and thereby control all U.S. governance at every level.

Gun Owners of America Fanatically hard-Right (and often ChristoFascist as well), it is nevertheless the best source for information about the One Percent's efforts to forcibly disarm the U.S. 99 Percent.

International Marxist Archive All of Marxism's defining texts defiantly uploaded to the Internet by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as its final contribution to humanity's eternal struggle for economic democracy -- without which there is no democracy at all.

RTFormerly "Russia Today," it accurately covers U.S. news the "mainstream media" propaganda machine routinely suppresses. Its notable work includes the nation's best coverage of the Occupy Movement (2011-2012), and the ongoing struggles of Black Lives Matter, Water Protectors and other such groups against the Empire's now-openly-fascist policies of homeland governance.

Second Amendment FoundationUnmistakably conservative, it is also the best source on legal action in defense of our right to keep and bear arms.

Socialist Worker Best Marxist website in the United States (never mind its purely ideological essays reflect only Leon Trotsky's viewpoint), with news reporting and analysis that is far superior to anything fed us by capitalism's "mainstream media" propaganda machine.

Southern Poverty Law CenterBest source of information on the burgeoning plague of Nazi, ChristoFascist and KuKluxKlan-type hate groups in the USian imperial homeland.

Theocracy WatchCornell University's in-depth source on the escalating campaign to impose zero-tolerance Christian theocracy on the USian Homeland. It is flawed only by its refusal to recognize the Democratic (sic) Party's mostly clandestine collaboration with the openly theocratic Republicans -- a collaboration revealed in frightening detail by Jeff Sharlet's "The Family: the Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" (Harper: 2008).

Unless otherwise noted, all material herein is copyrighted by Loren Bliss and/or Dispatches from Dystopia. Reproduction for non-profit purposes is permitted as long as it identifies the author or photographer and includes a link to the original text. To arrange for-profit reproduction, contact Loren Bliss via the comment facility.

ACLU CAN'T DISTINGUISH LYNCH MOBS FROM PEACEABLE ASSEMBLIES: There's no question about the willingness of the minority population and even some Working Class whites to take the necessary ameliorative action against the fascists – “fascists” used here in its broadest sense, to include the JesuNazis and all the other violent reactionaries the Trump-Pence Regime is elevating to national legitimacy. But the majority of apparently non-fascist whites, especially those of the professional and managerial castes, seem too cowardly – or too clandestinely compliant – to do more than hide behind First Amendment rhetoric that refuses to distinguish between peaceable assemblies and lynch mobs, thereby enabling the lynch mob that tried to beat an African-American man to death and murdered Heather Heyer, whose memorial service was held in Charlottesville, Virginia Tuesday night. (With thanks to Tigerlille for the “Cops refused to protect synagogue” link.)

CITIZENS UNITED DEFENDER ACLU FOUGHT TO ENABLE NAZI VIOLENCE: The great paradox of democratic process is its inherent self-destructiveness. And nothing illustrates that paradox more vividly than the American Civil Liberties Union, which fights to destroy the democratic process in the name of defending it, whether as amicus curiaein the Citizens United case or defender of the Nazis' right to march (and murder) in Charlottesville.

WE RECOGNIZETHE JESUNAZISM FESTERING AT THE TRUMP-PENCE CORE, BUTSun Tzu tells us there is no such thing as too much knowledge about one's enemy. Hence the relevance of this, this, this and this.

WHICH IS WHY I REMAIN A PROUD MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL WRITERS UNION, an emergent leader in the anti-fascist resistance, especially in raising money to pay the medical bills of the Charlottesville wounded.

MEANWHILE THE GESTAPO-MINDED TRUMP-PENCE REGIME tightens its stranglehold on our liberty by continuing to demand the identity of everyone who accessed the inauguration-protest website even once. Why else – but in preparation for a Nazi-Germany-caliber mass arrest of dissidents – would the regime demand such information?

A REVEALING MOMENT OF GLOBAL RESEARCH TRUTH ON NORTH KOREA shows us another demented dimension of USian fascism in action.

THE GNARLIEST ANTI-FASCIST VIDEO I HAVE YET SEEN contains the gnarliest anti-fascist comment I have yet heard: “screaming about your rights as an American while rockin' the Confederate flag is like arguing against gay marriage with a dick in your mouth.” (Scroll down the linked text to the bottom video.) Indeed for its anti-depressant effectiveness, it nearly equals this.

08/14/2017

TRUTHDIG SCOOPS THE WORLD ON PHOTOS OF THE NAZIS RUNNING AMOK in Charlottesville, Virginia. Thanks to the courage and skill of New York Photojournalist Michael Nigro, we get a closeup look at the murderous malignancy of the uniquely USian JesuNazism spawned by Capitalism in its historically inevitable metamorphosis into fascism.

These images also show us how the (predominantly white) local and state cops encouraged the murder and mayhem by refusing to intervene against the Nazis, thus revealing the fascist sympathies that infect far too many of the nation's federally militarized police.

But most importantly, what these photographs show us is the vision of USian terrorism than until now was mostly witnessed only by people of African-American, Hispanic or First Nations origins. What we see in so many of these frames is the true face of our species' most deadly enemies, the white-supremacist/Christian Identity terrorists whose ideological ancestors ruled the Confederate States of America, then ruled the German Third Reich and now seek to subjugate our own homeland with a high-tech version of their irremediably bigoted despotism.

Let us never forget the bitter truth this new Nazism's sneeringly sadistic perpetrators – every one of them a cancer cell of terminal hatefulness in human disguise – personify the menace We the People and our allies hoped we had eliminated 72 years ago in what the Occidental world labels the Second World War.

But tragically it seems not even the inconceivable 26.6 million deaths of Soviet men, women and children – more than enough corpses to ring the earth at its 24,901.55-miles of equator – was a martyrdom sufficient to cleanse our planet of the Nazis and their fascist kindred.

(Note how the unforgettable grief twisting the faces of women at Kiev reaches across the boundaries of race, nationality and time to establish an eternal family of those who mourn fascist atrocities whether at Charlottesville or anywhere else in our beleaguered planet.)

Meanwhile We the USian People in our misguided tolerance have betrayed even our own 838,000 Union Army and World War II dead – each forever extinguished life formerly possessed of the same physical, emotional and intellectual awareness that defines each of our own selves. We have also betrayed the 41 murdered men and women of both races who gave up their lives for the Civil Rights Movement.

And we whites are undoiubtedly the worst offenders. Most of us have ignored the warnings by Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. and Fred Hampton and Bobby Seale and Angela Davis and James Baldwin and Cornel West and Leonard Peltier and Abu Jamal and so many others.

We have allowed the Nazi vermin to multiply and metastasize, perhaps terminally, throughout our own body politic.

Now because of our former passivity we ourselves must undertake the hard, often dangerous, too frequently fatal work of rebuilding our own political household.

May the martyred Heather Heyer become a Muse of our revolutionary awakening and perseverance.

MURDERED WHITE WOMAN WAS PROTESTING NAZIFICATION. I reluctantly link the Yahoo report because it is the one source I could find that includes photographic portraits of the late Heather Heyer and her African-American comrades.

MEANWHILE TOO MUCH OF THE LEFT CLINGS TO SUICIDAL ANTI-GUN IDEOLOGY, ignoring the lessonstaught by the Black Panthers, the Deacons for Defense and the many activists who have quietly armed themselves against the definitively murderous JesuNazis and fascists in general.

COUNTERPUNCH PUBLISHES 3 VITAL CRITIQUES OF THE USIAN LEFT for not being sufficiently analytical or far enough Left, here, here and here. Best quotes are from the second and third URLs respectively. Luciana Bohne: “Fascism has many faces, but the most constant is that of the supremacist delusion that the West is the carrier of “universal values” and that, as exclusive interpreter and custodian of these values, the West is obligated to act as watchdog of democracy and human rights throughout the globe...This is the terrifying message of one nation 'uber alles.'” Rob Urie: “ (N)eoliberalism has long been a subtext of White nationalism. If social outcomes reflect individual capabilities, goes the theory, then group social failures result from aggregated individual failures— from some ‘defect’ that characterizes individuals as members of that group. This is the theoretical basis of ‘scientific racism’” – in other words, why the “super-predator” Clintons are as much white racist swine as any Ku Klux Klanner.

NEW POLL SHOWS REPUBLICANS DEEPLY DESIRE MORE DESPOTISM,no surprise to those of us who acknowledge Capitalism's irresistible momentum toward JesuNazism and fascism in general.

BRIEF BUT CONTEMPLATIVELY IMPORTANT READING, an open letter from James Baldwin to Angela Davis I inadvertently omitted from the last Dispatches. (The Newsweek cover Baldwin cites is here.) When oh when will we embrace such rightfully revolutionary leadership – especially now in this era of ever-more-brazen JesuNazi murderousness.

To do so, they've followed the Democratic (sic) Party's practice of hybridizing progressive-sounding rhetoric with irredeemably bourgeois conceptualizations of New Age individualism – think “the audacity of hope” and “change we can believe in.” Thus, like the Democrats, they deftly conceal their underlying tyrannical intent. But unlike the Democrats, these perpetrators of oppression have refined their messaging to an intellectual and emotional counter-revolutionary toxicity that in its seductiveness may have no counterpart in human history.

Disclosure: as the editor-in-chief of Art Direction magazine c. 1984-1986, I was often called upon to pass judgment on advertising and public relations campaigns – and this campaign is by far the most diabolically effective such effort I have ever encountered. Josef Goebbels would be not just proud but ecstatic. Which is probably why the usually ideologically savvy editors of PopularResistance.org were duped into publishing it. (Scroll down to the comment thread for absolute proof – in the perpetrators' own words – of their counter-revolutionary intent.)

RACIST HOMOPHOBIC VIGILANTES BURN A WHITE OKLAHOMA MAN'S HOUSE and garage to terrorize him for being openly gay and continuing to reside in an all-white neighborhood after adopting an African-American child as his son.

NOT SURPRISINGLY, ANOTHER UNIONIZATION CAMPAIGN DIES in the irremediably subjugated South, the UAW rejected overwhelmingly by the (mostly African-American) workers it was intended to empower and protect.

RUSSIA AND CHINA EMERGE AS THE NEW GLOBAL PEACMAKERS, trying desperately – and possibly with some success – to stave off the threat of nuclear war on the Korean peninsula as the Empire escalates its warmongering even in that potentially apocalyptic powder-keg environment.

USIAN HEALTHCARE WORKERS HAVE BEGUN DISCOVERING THEIR POWER to win better care for their patients and overthrow Capitalism's implicitly genocidal privilege-of-wealth healthcare by replacing it with genuinely humanitarian healthcare as a human right.

THEN THERE'S THE WEIRD STUFF YOU SOMETIMES STUMBLE ON while you're doing research, such as this interview with Mark Ames, whose (2005) book about rage murders in USian schools and workplaces claims these violent acts are, in effect, failed revolts.

PLUS THE VITAL REVIEW OF A WORK THAT SHOWS HOW CAPITALISM, given half a chance, will inevitably father fascism. Entitled Big Business and Hitler, this book is relevant not only because of its unprecedented disclosures, but because it refutes the false, aristocracy-protecting analyses of how Hitler came to power, which closely parallel the equally false, equally aristocracy-protecting analyses of how the Trump-Pence Regime came to rule the USian Empire.

08/07/2017

(Longtime readers please note that in many Dispatches updates, links to older material are provided as background. New readers might find these older links useful, possibly even vital, in understanding the significance of the new material.)

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FROM CIVILIZATION'S PERSPECTIVE, TRUMP'S MALEVOLENT BARBARISM is “far worse than expected.” The linked der Spiegel report confirms, in a generalized sense, much of what I predicted immediately after the Ruling Class oh-so-deftly manipulated the Trump/Pence Regime into the White House.

WHICH ADMITS THE NEED FOR AN ANTI-USIAN INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE: though the der Spiegel report does not say it outright, it implicitly raises the prospect of an all-Europe, eventually global alliance of civilized peoples and nations to fight against the JesuNazi savagery that now threatens not only the survival of our species, but the survival of Earth as anything more than a bug planet. Such an alliance would most assuredly provide one of the four prerequisites to successful revolution – that is, the support of a major foreign power (scroll down to “History shows us...”). But not so fast with the false hopes: can anything stop the JesuNazis' scheme to nuke the whole world – which they believe is necessary to bring their Sadomasochistic Savior and Messiah of Malignancy back to Earth?

TEACHABLE MOMENTS WITHIN THE TRUMP-PENCE TYRANNIES: the one most important lesson being hammered into our (allegedly) conscious minds by the Trump/Pence Regime – not just by its own unapologetic tyranny, but by the breathtaking betrayal increasingly evident in how the Democratic (sic) Party's ever-more-obvious Big Lie of opposition put the JesuNazis in the White House – is that We the People no longer have any friends at all amongst those who govern on behalf of Capitalism. Just as – precisely because our Capitalist overlords no longer hide the fact they consider us the enemy – so must We the People learn to consider all Capitalist governance the enemy. Indeed our survival depends on it. The sooner we recognize the ugly truth that one-party Capitalist despotism lurks behind the Big Lie of the USian two-party system, the sooner we will be able to replace it with real (i.e., socialist) democracy.

BUT EVEN THOSE WHO KNOW BETTER CLING DESPERATELY, and often with compelling eloquence, to the Big Lie of USia as the land of “liberty and justice for all.” Such fools hold to the ludicrous notion Trumpcare was somehow magically defeated by public protest – this in a land wherein We the People have long been reduced to absolute powerlessness. In Capitalist truth – the embittering truth so many of us yet reflexively deny – the outcome was decided solely by thehealth insurance lobbyists and their manifest skills at legal bribery and psychological arm-twisting. To believe otherwise is as absurd as the equally self-defeating belief the USian Anti-War Movement – not the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese People's Army – won the Vietnam War. But here again we encounter the disheartening lesson that rebellion requires individual and collective courage – a quality that has been almost completely eradicated from the USian people save amongst the Empire's violently persecuted minorities.

HENCE THIS LIST OF NEW AND OLD PROOFS OF OPPRESSION, with the latter included as vital background. Among the most glaringly relevant examples are the imposition of Obamacare (which from its inception was intended to perpetuate – precisely as its suddenly increased popularity is doing – healthcare as a privilege of wealth rather than a human right); the genocidal intent that underlies the Trumpcare threat (which is already forcing people to flee the United States); the total-surveillance state (which with its federally militarized cops and myriad secret police agencies is specifically intended to ensure the religiously mandated savagery of Biblical Capitalism remains forever revolution-proof); and of course the 2016 Presidential Election itself (which with the Democratic [sic] Party's now-undeniably fake campaign – not even Hillary could have been that egotistically stupid – was the last [ultimately terminal] act in the great charade of USian “democracy”). No surprise, the script is playing out precisely as (euphemistically) outlined in the Powell Memo'sblueprint for the metamorphoses of USian Capitalism into its unique form of fascism, JesuNazism.

THAT SAID, THE BEST ANALYSIS OF HOW THE TRUMP-PENCE TICKET WON – he “blew smoke up our asses” – was voiced by a woman in West Virginia we'd all probably love to have a beer with.

BUT THAT DOESN'T DIMINISH THE EVER-EXPANDING ROSTER OF ATROCITIES the Trump-Pence Regime is committing against any and all of us who are not armored by weaponized wealth. The newest such assaults are described here (with thanks to a reader for the heads-up); here; and here. This last link is to the best report yet on Google's new, implicitly white supremacist suppression of all Leftist commentary and criticism.

ATOP THAT, SESSIONS THREATENS US WITH HOW EASY IT IS TO BE VICTIMIZED for being openly LGBTQ.

THOUGH ON THE (EVER-DWINDLING) POSITIVE SIDE OF THE POLITICAL LEDGER, there remain a few doggedly persistent efforts to (falsely) reassure us the Trump-Pence Regime will not eradicate all the (very few) remaining vestiges of our (alleged) democracy. These include the burgeoning but probably doomed fight against the price-gouginginflicted on us by the prescription drug lords; an indisputably doomed effort to federally legalize marijuana; a pathetically optimistic essay based on the cruel delusion the JesuNazis might allow the recognition of healthcare as a human right; next a Ralph Nader piece expressing one of our most desperate hopes that, unintentionally, shows why all hope is absurd; and, lastly, Oliver Stone's truthfully eloquent, personally inspiring but nevertheless politically impotent rant against the monumental deceptions by which the Empire is attempting to justifying its hostility toward Russia.

NEVERTHELESS, I STILL BELIEVE “WE SHALL OVERCOME.” BUT TO DO SO, we damn well have to acknowledge the terrible Machiavellian brilliance of our enemy and our own monumental failure to grasp the near-infinite magnitude of his oppressiveness, a malevolent force that is all the more difficult to comprehend precisely because it has no precedent in our species' entire 200,000-year history. For only when we have come to truly know our enemy will we able to find the spaces, mental and physical – or more correctly internal and external – in which to evolve genuine revolution.

08/03/2017

READER ALERT: In what is obviously another act of politically motivated censorship, HotMail will no longer transmit Dispatches. This is the second incident of retaliation by service providers, as America On Line (AOL) email began locking out of Dispatches transmissions several months ago. Despite the aggravation, I take this as an inadvertent compliment: clearly this material is frightening some of our corporate overlords.

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CAPITALISM AND JESUNAZISM AS CHOREOGRAPHIES OF SUICIDE: today's Dispatches open with another bitingly relevant essay by Chris Hedges that in one way or another embodies the message implicit in all of today's news items.

I link to Hedges' work so often not only because this long-declared socialist eloquently and informatively journeys ever further to the (real) Left, but because I am increasingly convinced he may be the greatest USian nonfiction writer of this era. If indeed our species has any future at all, he will at the very least be honored as the most courageously outspoken English-language essayist of the early 21st Century.

Implicit in all his work is acknowledgment of the infinitely damning and therefore often emphatically denied truth the common denominator of our present-day human consciousness is despair.

Nor does Hedges flinch from the obvious but even more forcibly suppressed corollary that if we are to make the revolution that is necessary to preserve our species and save our Earth from reduction to a bug planet – that is, if we are to overthrow capitalism – we must find a way to make revolution an assertion of affirmation rather than a frenzy of destruction.

DESPOTISM AS DEATH (1) – THE MILITARIZED COPS to whom we the people are the enemy continue to run amok, especially now that their murderous brutality is publicly endorsed and applauded by Trump. The first of these two linked reports includes a partial roll-call of the dead, an ancient ritual that in the thealogy of my Pagan Celtic ancestors was an invocation of the Morrigan in her aspect as Goddess of Retribution. Meanwhile because of escalating police violence against people of color, women and LGBTQ folk, the NAACP advises against visiting the state of Missouri or even traveling through it.

DESPOTISM AS DEATH (2) – GENOCIDAL DENIAL OF HEALTHCARE: As cannot be said too often, the Trump/Pence Regime's opposition to Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid is a byproduct of its fanatical Christianity. That's why Trump's threats – which are ultimately threats to murder us all by denying us the care that keeps us alive – are to be taken as seriously as any death threat from a known serial killer. How many times must it be said: this is not a policy dispute. It is religious war, a doctrinally motivated effort to impose genocide.

DESPOTISM AS DEATH (3) – MENTAL ILLNESS REDUCES US TO THROWAWAY PEOPLE (a passage from the linked text): “Under the current neoliberal order, our mental health is subordinated to the needs of the market. On the one hand, the government and big business sell us the idea of happiness and wellbeing, a kind of consumerist dream where we seek our personal fulfillment through a well-paid job and a happy relationship, furnished with consumer goods as markers of our success. On the other hand, when the capitalist system fails to deliver on our dreams and goals, we are encouraged to blame ourselves for our failure to succeed. But if we begin to crack psychologically, then we find there are few psychological services available to help.”

The linked report also describes the efforts of Marxian psychologists to combat Capitalism's often-sadistic victimization of people who are mentally ill. An otherwise thoughtful and thought-provoking essay by Hazel Croft, it unfortunately omits any mention of the pioneering work by the late David Smail, with whom I briefly corresponded just after the turn of the century. Though not Marxian per se, Smail nevertheless argued that much of what is defined as mental illness must be understood as the result of wounding by the savagery of Capitalism.

While Croft focuses entirely on the plight of mentally ill people in Great Britain, her text is nevertheless a relevant introduction to the infinitely worse conditions here in the USian Homeland, where chronic mental patients were amongst the first victims of Capitalism's regression to the malevolence that defines its transition into fascism.

DESPOTISM AS DECEPTION (2) – A SUBSET OF DECEPTION IS CENSORSHIP. Its Big Lie is its implicit denial of the existence of the targeted information. It is also an atrocity against human consciousness, the deliberate imposition of ignorance by the withholding of vital information, precisely as Google is now doing. Note too the vendetta against Dispatches by the email services HotMail and AOL as reported above. Nor are films exempt from this radical increase in unapologetic censorship, all of it fostered by Capitalism's metamorphosis into fascism.

DESPOTISM AS DESPAIR – INDICATIONS OF OUR PRESENT MINDSET: a Spanish journalist writes poignantly of our desperate need for an antidote to fear and hatred. An older report links belief in a punitive god – one of the defining dogmas of JesuNazism – to increased anxiety and mental illness. And I argue that our radically declining voter turnout – only 14.95 percent in Tuesday's Washington state primary elections – is itself a symptom of the emotional abyss into which Capitalism has hurled us. Because the lack of turnout is a kind of vote – its message is “none of the above” – it bodes very badly for any electoral relief from JesuNazism next year.

LASTLY, IN EXULTANT DEFIANCE OF JESUNAZI HOMOPHOBIA, here's how the aristocracy celebrates diversity: a high-society gay wedding so lavish it's covered by Vogue, which if nothing else proves that even under Capitalism, the Ruling Class can sometimes set a culturally useful example. (Many thanks to the reader – she prefers her identity be kept secret – who thoughtfully emailed me this link.)

07/30/2017

TRUMP RESUMES HIS WAR AGAINST PUBLICLY FUNDED HEALTHCARE, thereby proving all the victory celebrations were once again nothing more than premature ejaculations of deluded optimism by pathetically gullible fools or deliberately manipulative PseudoLeftists.

The Trump-Pence Regime behaves at it does because it's waging a religious war intended to abolish all such forms of insurance. It is most assuredly not – say again NOT – merely squabbling with the Democratic (sic) Party over matters of fascist domestic policy. The religious element – deliberately concealed by Mainstream Media – arises directly from the murderous doctrines of Biblical Capitalism and its Prosperity Gospel derivative.

These dogmas command the regime's JesuNazi fanatics to reject any notion of healthcare as a human right, damning such humanitarianism as a grave offense to their infinitely sadistic god. Healthcare must remain a privilege of wealth, they say, because the wealth required to afford it is a signal blessing bestowed by their god. Those who can pay for healthcare are thus demonstrably their god's chosen people, just as those of us who cannot afford it are their god's enemies and therefore deserve the death denial of healthcare will inflict. It is that simple.

But until we finally acknowledge the religious fanaticism that fuels the regime's genocidal crusade, we will repeatedly be soothed by false Mainstream Media and Democratic (sic) Party claims the war is won. And we will repeatedly be ambushed as we were by the House vote and by mouse-faced Mitch McConnell's attempt at “skinny repeal” last week.

Like all such fanatics, the JesuNazis will employ any imaginable means to achieve their goals. In this instance their obvious intent is to strip us of every vestige of our (already murderously substandard) healthcare, whether by act of Congress or administrative legerdemain or both. At least one of the regime's top appointeeshad already said as much (scroll down to the information buried in the Associated Press report's 14th paragraph) even before Trump's newest ultimatum. Obviously the regime's long-range objective is to use healthcare denial as a Final Solution for exterminating the largest possible number of those of us deemed no longer exploitable for Capitalist profit.

Hence the March CBO report – which remains valid because it is based on the regime's non-negotiable demands – tells the whole terrifying story of what is in store for us.

A RELIABLE ALBEIT SOMETIMES DISCOURAGINGLY MODERATE SOURCE on the true magnitude of the JesuNazi threat is the Americans United (AU) website. Its weekend edition contains at least four reports worth reading, one revealing the Trump-Pence Regime's appointment of outspoken theocrat Sam Brownback as ambassador at large for religious freedom. Though AU does not describe it with quite so strong a simile, choosing Brownback for this role is like appointing Ku Klux Klanner David Duke to oversee African-American efforts to achieve equality. (Brownback, by the way, is Hillary Clinton's behind-the-scenes collaborator in her misogynistic project of “tunneling beneath” the constitutional separation of church and state, for which see The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power [Jeff Sharlet; Harper: 2008], page 275.)

THE STRUGGLE TO PRESERVE NET NEUTRALITY CONTINUES, despite the fact the government exhibits the same fuck-the-public stanceit displays on healthcare. Undoubtedly this is the policy of the Trump-Pence Regime on all domestic issues.

ENCOURAGEMENT OF CORPORATE CRIME IS A BIPARTISAN ENTERPRISE. Once again we see the reality of Capitalist governance: absolute power and unlimited profit for the One Percent and its Ruling Class vassals, total subjugation and bottomless poverty for all the rest of us.

USIAN SURVEILLANCE-STATE TYRANNY IS OLDER THAN WE THINK: a retrospective on how the local cops conspired with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency to destroy the Counterculture and its Anti-Vietnam-War Movement in one Middle Western university city.

A TRANS WOMAN'S COMMANTARY ON WHY TRANS PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SERVE IN THE IMPERIAL WAR MACHINE expresses a viewpoint that is too often ignored or suppressed. Significantly, it raises issues similar to those that prompted the Vietnam War debate of whether it was ethical (or ideologically proper) for a conscientious objector (i.e., a pacifist) to serve the imperial war machine as a medic. My own belief is that no one should be excluded from military service on the basis of sexual, political or religious identity. Why? Because the more potential dissidents are under arms, the more likely it is USian soldiers will follow the example of the breathtakingly brave Russian soldiers who refused to obey their officers' orders to fire on the anti-Tsarist demonstrators in Petrograd on 8 March 1917 – and by their courageous disobedience enabled the Russian Revolution. Which is no doubt exactly why the Trump-Pence Regime wants to purge the Imperial War Machine of trans people; its next targets will almost certainly be LGBTQ folks in general, and after that, Pagans and Muslims. Unfortunately the author of the commentary does not seem to realize the purge of transsexual people is not merely the product of homophobia but is the newest assault in the JesuNazi regime's steadily escalating religious war against any of us its white Christian Identity fanatics would exterminate as “abominations” or “heretics.”

GLEN FORD OF BLACK AGENDA REPORT FINDS ONE THING for which to thank the Trump-Pence Regime: “His presidency has been six months of pain and confusion...But, if Hillary Clinton had been elected, we might all be dead.”

AS REVIEWED, THE FILM DETROIT IS SURELY WORTH SEEING. It is based on the 1967 rebellion and focused on the Algiers Motel Incident. Its reviewer Carrie Rickey saysDetroit leaves us “with is a deeper understanding of how those five days in July changed lives—and an implicit hope that that understanding will change our lives as well.” Alas, I will never be able to measure her review against the film itself. The price of admission to a movie today is at least $12 – way more than I can afford to spend on anything apart from necessities.

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A FEW READERS SAY I AM TOO PESSIMISTIC ON HEALTHCARE. MY RESPONSE is to suggest they study USian history, to wit:

In the days of the New Deal and its New Frontier and Great Society sequels, We the (white) People could assume our Capitalist overlords would generally be at least socioeconomically merciful and sometimes even beneficent.

Nevertheless, that era of expanded health-and-welfare benefits included two notably malevolent (and ultimately prophetic) exceptions. One of these was the Taft-Hartley Act, which eventually destroyed the USian labor movement, exactly as intended. The other was what should be labeled the Great Purge of Communists, socialists and intellectuals, which began the process of reducing USia to the appallingly submissive Moron Nation it is today.

However, until the Nixon Administration, 1969-1974, the reduction process was mostly ideological, and We the People could still hope for gradual expansion of the socioeconomic protections provided by such programs as Medicare, Medicaid, the War on Poverty and even Nixon's CETA jobs program.

But then, as demanded by the Powell Memo and Milton Friedman's economics of moral imbecility, the ideological reduction became socioeconomic reduction as well. This 40-year process, fueled by the historically inevitable transformation of Capitalism into Fascism, started with the Carter Administration's anti-abortion and anti-welfare policies and was slowly but relentlessly expanded via the subsequent Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump-Pence regimes into its present, undeniably genocidal form.

Meanwhile, the federal government – and for that matter all state and local governments as well – ever-more-brazenly abandoned their pretense of representing us, We the (soon-to-be-forsaken) People. Thus – in a transformation clearly symbolized by the installation of security measures that turned government offices into hostile fortifications of the sort one might have encountered in France under German Nazi occupation – USian governments became the facilitators of the Capitalists' ever-more-insistent schemes for imposition of zero-tolerance Fascist tyranny on an ever-more-subjugated population.

Today, with the uniquely USian ideology of JesuNazism and its Trump-Pence Regime finalizing the transition from USia's “sweet land of (white) liberty” to a Fascist police state in which 99 percent of us are either serfs or slaves, the optimism that characterized the New Deal era and its New Frontier and Great Society extensions is not only absurd but suicidal. In the context of healthcare, this means we should (1)-assume any claim We the People are winning is a Big Lie intended to anesthetize us into relaxing our vigilance; and (2)-assume our oppressors will eventually succeed in their efforts to turn “healthcare reform” into a genocidal Final Solution to rid the USian Homeland of anyone who, because of age, disability or otherwise-inflicted chronic poverty, is no longer exploitable for Capitalist profit.

Verily, as disclosed in the text linked via “abolish all such forms of insurance” (above), the Trump-Pence Regime has already implicitly admitted that is precisely its intent.

Pessimism – indeed pessimism of the most bottomless sort – is therefore our only rational response.

But we are defeated only if we allow ourselves to be paralyzed by the associated (and entirely rational) terror of what will become of us once we are effectively forbidden access to healthcare. If instead we turn our fear into a motive for action, we will at the very least experience the spark of personal triumph that comes from defying the forces of oppression. And in solidarity with our sisters and brothers, our sparks might just kindle the conflagration essential to rid our planet of the cancer of Capitalism before it kills us all. In fact, given the socioeconomic and environmental givens, we have nothing whatsoever left to lose.

07/26/2017

I SHOULD NOT be blogging tonight, boiling as I am in fury and wrenched as I am by fear.

Yes of course I knew our Capitalist overlords and their political vassals in the Trump/Pence Regime and Congress would eventually succeed in imposing the most murderously ambitious, most malevolently devious Final Solution in our species' history. The Senate vote to debate the issue is merely a prelude to its enactment; there would have been no procedural vote were not the Senate's smirking majority leader, the mouse-faced Mitch McConnell, absolutely certain some form of the genocidal measure would be enacted.

Given the degree of our subjugation, there is no possibility such legislation can be defeated. The Republican Party merely cloaks it with euphemisms, the better to befuddle the few who still retain vestiges of humanitarian conscience. Meanwhile the Democratic (sic) Party's ostentatious effort to stop enactment of what should properly be called the DEATH Act – Destroying the Economically Afflicted by Terminating Healthcare – is nothing more than a loudly whined Big Lie to distance its politicians from the measure's unspeakable consequences.

Never forget, it was the Democratic (sic) Party's malicious abandonment of Working Families and lower-income people in general – those of us to be slain by denial of healthcare – that enabled the forthcoming genocide.

As for me, I knew DEATH would be enacted because I know the United States of America has become as much a realm of moral imbecility as Nazi Germany was. And now at least 20 million of us – soon to be damned by our lack of health insurance and thus condemned to death because the poverty inflicted on us by Capitalism proves to our Capitalist overlords we are no longer exploitable for their obscene profit – are to be exterminated by denial of health care, I among them.

Therefore my fury. Firstly I rage because I myself am amongst the condemned. Secondly – because unlike most USians (who would be protesting in the streets were they not so cravenly self-centered) – I have somehow retained the ability to empathize with my fellow humans. I rage at the magnitude by which We the People have once more been betrayed by the Capitalists – this time terminally and forever. Say it again: terminally and forever. Terminally for at least 20 million women, children and men, self included. Forever because that's low long USian healthcare will now remain a privilege of wealth rather than the human right it is everywhere in the civilized world.

Face it: here in the USian Homeland, despite the falsely reassuring claims of the PseudoLeft (and the idiotic hopes of some even on the true Left), there is no possibility of restoring the minimal healthcare that is now being taken away from us, much less of forcing the enactment of socialized medicine. Now neither alternative – not even restoration of the over-priced inadequacies that were begrudgingly made available by Obama Regime's deceptively named Affordable Care Act – can be ever achieved by any means short of full-fledged revolution. But as we all (should) know, revolution requires a courageousness that was long ago been beaten out of nearly all USian whites and lingers only amongst the Empire's (eventually doomed) minorities – people still mindful enough to recognize they have nothing to lose but their own self-respect and bravely choose to act accordingly.

Thus the political becomes personal, and vice-versa, as in the context of healthcare it most assuredly does for me. Beyond my anger is bottomless fear. What I fear is not death; when one reaches age 77, death is one's constant companion. What I fear is the unimaginable agony and the infinite terror that will thus become the totality of my consciousness as I am ever-so-slowly suffocated by untreated congestive heart failure – the fate to which the USian Empire's Capitalist tyrants and their whoring vassals have now condemned me – unless by some very good fortune I die before 31 December 2017, the date beyond which the total loss of federal subsidies will make my health insurance unaffordable and therefore murder me by cutting off the care and medication that now sustains my life.

BEFORE TODAY'S SENATE VOTE, I SOOTHED MY ANXIETY BY WONDERING if the entire healthcare fight were an elaborate scam to save Obama's Affordable Care Act, the name of which is almost as big a Big Lie as his 2008 campaign slogan, “change we can believe in.” Such a scheme to save Obamacare – the Capitalist purpose of which is perpetuating the USian policy of health insurance as a privilege of wealth – is typical of what might be scripted by the psychological warfare experts employed by the Empire in the sewers of the Deep State. I admit I was momentarily conned: the burgeoning support for the ACA – its lesser-evilism now the defining characteristic of the ever-more-limited choices allowed us by our masters – briefly kindled my now-obviously moronic hope the overtly genocidal Trumpcare program might be more ploy than policy, rather like claiming to “make the world safe for democracy” while doing exactly the opposite.

APROPOS THE PSEUDOLEFT'S BOURGEOIS CONTEMPT FOR REAL PEOPLE, one of its propagandists at Mother Jones just expressed his “reflexive disgust” at those he sneeringly labels “the homeless” – no “homeless people” for him – his choice of nouns further objectifying these victims of Capitalism as a less-than-human subspecies. Though this example of PseudoLeft bigotry was mostly ignored – and thereby tacitly approved – by USia's Mainstream Media, it was duly denounced by major media in the civilized world. But that report's “under fire” is grossly misleading, as the only USian protest has come from a very few sources on the Left.

CHRIS HEDGES CONFIRMS THE MAGNITUDE OF THE JESUNAZI ONSLAUGHT: Just as he said in American Fascists: the Christian Right and the War on America (Free Press: 2006); just as Kevin Phillips said in American Theocracy: the Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century (Viking: 2006); just as Jeff Sharlet said in The Family: the Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper: 2008); and just as I have been saying ever since, the JesuNazis are in fact the gravest internai threat this nation has ever faced. And they are winning. Quoth Hedges: “Trump’s moves to restrict abortion, defund Planned Parenthood, permit discrimination against LGBT people in the name of 'religious liberty' and allow churches to become active in politics by gutting the Johnson Amendment, along with his nominations of judges championed by the Federalist Society and his call for a ban on Muslim immigrants, have endeared him to the Christian right. He has rolled back civil rights legislation and business and environmental regulations. He has elevated several stalwarts of the Christian right into power—Mike Pence to the vice presidency, Jeff Sessions to the Justice Department, Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, Betsy DeVos to the Department of Education, Tom Price to Health and Human Services and Ben Carson to Housing and Urban Development. He embraces the white supremacy, bigotry, American chauvinism, greed, religious intolerance, anger and racism that define the Christian right...If the alliance between these zealots and the government succeeds, it will snuff out the last vestiges of American democracy.” In which context note how Trump has “signed a global death warrant for women.”

TRUMP SEEKS TO MAKE THE BOY SCOUTS HIS OWN HITLER-YOUTH CLONE. Not that I – after finally yielding to the bottomless personal horror and infinite hopelessness of the Trump/Pence Regime's genocidal Medicaid and healthcare repeal – can ever again be surprised by any evil these foul tyrants perpetrate or spawn. But I was a Scout once, and though (thanks to a Marxian father), I was always aware of the incipient fascism in the organization's uncritical patriotism and its credo of unquestioning obedience, scouting for me was mostly an opportunity for camping, hiking the Appalachian Trail and enjoying some of the very fine back-country trout fishing that still existed in the Appalachia of the 1950s. Now though, Trump is turning the organization into something truly ominous,its JesuNazi potential intensified to infinity by the fact 70 percent of all USian Boy Scout organizations are sponsored by Christian churches. Which clearly explains why the scouts themselves gleefully followed Trump's lead in booing Obama and chanting “USA! USA! USA!,” the USian equivalent of “Zieg Heil.” In other words, though Trump is damn well blameworthy for giving the speech, it is the scouts' response that should scare us shitless.

PROCTOR AND GAMBLE PROPAGANDA THAT IS NEVERTHELESS WORTH VIEWING: Some of the Capitalists – recognizing what their greedy malevolence has wrought – are trying to soften their image, intending to convince us that our species' survival does not mandate the termination of capitalism. The result is indeed compelling – in this instance an impressive example of the sentiments advertising should have been encouraging at least a century ago. But do not be taken in. Capitalism is what is killing us. However it may cloak itself in pseudo-humanitarian gestures, its venom remains as deadly as that of any cobra.

LEST WE FORGET, TODAY IS THE 64TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION: hence the relevance of a short history of the 26 de Julio Movement and how it liberated the Cuban people from the USian Empire's fascist stranglehold. (This summary of the revolution's history was published in 2014, hence its reference to the 61st anniversary.) There is also a much more detailed history here. And then there is this, as if to remind us that even in the depths of despair – indeed especially in such depths – we should never abandon our revolutionary principles..

07/23/2017

GENOCIDE IS GENOCIDE however it is inflicted. Dead is dead whether we are killed in wars of extermination, as were the First Nations peoples; or slain in death camps, as were the peoples targeted by the German Nazis and their allies; or murdered by the infinitely more devious methods the Capitalists and their professional and managerial vassals have devised since World War II.

Today genocide is accomplished not as it was at Wounded Knee by the United States Government or at Auschwitz by the German Third Reich. Such brazen tactics cannot easily be disguised by euphemisms and are therefore no longer fashionable. Instead, Capitalism's engineers of mass murder now kill us by methods they have cleverly designed to absolve themselves by shifting all blame onto the dead and onto those of us who will soon be similarly slain. This is the obvious rationale behind the deadly denial of healthcare, which already murders at least 50,000 USian women, children and men every year and will murder millions more in the near future. It is obviously the motive for the deadly militarization of local police, who have killed 681 women, children and men thus far this year. And it unquestionably explains the deadly environmental poisoning of local, typically lower-income and/or minority neighborhoods, the death toll from which is one of Capitalism's most closely held secrets. But its magnitude of slaughter is exemplified by the 25,000 women, children and men murdered by USian corporate moral imbecility at Bhopal in 1984.

In all such circumstances, the Capitalists respond by blaming the victims: “you should have bought better health insurance”; “you should have submitted to the police”; “you should have moved to a better neighborhood.” And in the USian Homeland – where the Trump-Pence victory demonstrates the long-term consequences of methodical conditioning in a toxic ethos that combines Ayn Rand selfishness with Prosperity Gospel hatefulness – Capitalism's malicious retorts are accepted as absolute truth. The result is a climate in which genocide is perfectly acceptable, much as it was in Germany after the Nazis and their fascist allies (including Henry Ford himself) embraced the pre-Holocaust slanders propagated by The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

With these facts as preface – bearing in mind genocide is genocide however it is accomplished; that dead is dead whether we are slain by cop bullets or murdered by denial of healthcare or killed by environmental poisoning; and that the Capitalists and their managerial and professional vassals are now openly targeting any of us they deem no longer exploitable for profit – let us look at the relevant news:

EUROPEAN LEFT STRUGGLES TO FIND ISSUES BY WHICH TO BUILD SOLIDARITY, a quest as vital over here as it is over there.

RELATED AND VERY RELEVANT ESSAYS TO HELP US REFINE OUR OWN IDEOLOGY AND ANALYSIS are here, here, here, here. and here. The underlying theme in each of these texts is the struggle to build revolutionary solidarity. Their underlying lesson was first verbalized by the IWW: any analysis not founded on the premise that an attack against one of us is an attack against all of us is just another Big Lie.

AMONG THE MOST DAMNING EXAMPLES YET OF “CAPITALIST” AND “PREDATOR” as synonyms – and how Capitalism of necessity operates from the core principle of the Big Lie – is exposed by this blistering report on the deliberate deceptions foisted on us to peddle Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream.

AS IF TO CORROBORATE MY CONTENTION the militarization of local police departments has deliberately converted the cops to a Capitalist army of occupation that regards every one of us an enemy to be slain at will, here and here are two more relevant essays. In this context, reflect on the message conveyed by the security measures that now fortify every government office building, whether federal, state or local, as if it were an outpost of some despised invader. What does this tell us about how “we the people” are regarded by those who rule us? What does it say about “our democracy”? Wake up, folks; Capitalism is subjugating us to such an extent we will soon be as powerless as any conquered people in our species' history.

THE DEMOCRATIC (SIC) PARTY STILL TRIES TO HIDE ITS FUNCTION as Capitalism's primary weapon of USian Homeland oppression. We socialists all know the Democrats are closet fascists, but this report opens the closet door. https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/21/inclusive-capitalism-nancy-pelosi-and-the-dying-planet/ Either we rid ourselves of Capitalism, “or its game over for humanity along with the countless other species homo sapiens is wiping out under the soulless command of capital.”

AND THE MOST DAMNING EVIDENCE YET “DEMOCRAT” IS SYNONYMOUS WITH “FASCIST” is in the party's effort to felonize any participation in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign that's protesting Israel's genocidal war against the Palestinians. (Heads up to Washington state residents: the comment thread that follows this report contains an accurate list of the felonization measures' supporters that includes Senator Cantwell and Representatives Kilmer, Smith and Larsen, Democrats all.) Though the legislation is bipartisan – and is exactly the sort of thing the politically uninformed would expect from the Republicans only – the Democrats are clearly the most enthusiastic advocates of this newest effort to nullify the First Amendment.

BUT CAN THE GREENS PROVIDE A VIABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE? Their embrace of tokenism proves they were neutralized by the racial disease of reflexive whiteness long before they were torn apart internally by the still-perplexing Jill Stein/David Cobb collaboration with the Democratic (sic) Party's post-election scheming to whitewash (no pun intended) how Hillary's warmongering arrogance doomed us all to Trump/Pence malevolence. Thus the relevance of Jeffrey St. Clair's “Red State, Blue State; Green State, Deep State,” an unnecessarily rambling essay that takes 30-odd paragraphs – accurately counting such things (easy on an old-time galley proof), is utterly impossible on a computer monitor – to get to its point: that Stein and Cobb destroyed the party from within, whether as a result of foolhardiness “or something more sinister.”

THE FEDS HAVE PUT A DE FACTO BOUNTY ON UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS, and some Texas police departments are working overtime to collect it. (Note: the head on the full text of this report is misleading, as it suggests anti-immigrant profiteering by the Capitalists rather than by their Praetorians.)

HOW DID THE BOLSHEVIKS COPE WITH SUCH DESPAIR AS IS NOW OURS? Their successful resilience was born of ideological discipline, a quality we must consciously make our own, and yet another example of how an updated Marxism is the only possible cure for the malignancy that is Capitalism.

INTERESTING READING: “What Does Russiagate Look Like to Russians,” here.

07/21/2017

(Note: The following commentary is addressed to those readers who have not yet realized that Marxism provides our only means of liberation from our present socioeconomic and political subjugation.)

THE OUTRAGES PERPETRATED by the Trump-Pence Regime provide us an ongoing series of wake-up calls that are undoubtedly the best opportunities for life-changing consciousness-raising our nation's sordid history has provided since the Great Depression. That's because the Trump-Pence Regime is, albeit in a decidedly perverse sense, the most honest regime to rule the Empire in my 77-year lifetime and quite possibly in the Empire's entire post-1776 history. Unlike its predecessors, it makes no attempt to hide its brutality or even cloak its viciousness with euphemisms. It brazenly revels in its murderously greedy Capitalist despotism much the same way Adolf Hitler reveled in his genocidal savagery. Nor does the regime conceal its malevolent intent to perpetuate that despotism by imposing the zero-tolerance tyranny that defines JesuNazi theocracy – that brazenness itself a radical departure from the regimen of secrecy that formerly cloaked the theocrats' schemes.

But the revolutionary significance of these developments is usually ignored or deliberately concealed by Mainstream Media, which means the lessons implicit in these teachable moments typically go unlearned. Mainstream Media, let us not forget, is owned by the some of the same Capitalists who own all USian governments at every level. Therefore in terms of function, Mainstream Media is the privately-owned, for-(obscene)-profit variant of Josef Goebbels' infamous Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Thus the USian shibboleth of “our democracy” – which given the Empire's apocalyptic power and intent is undoubtedly the most self-destructive Big Lie in our species' history – is perpetuated by the same sorts of ignorance, disinformation and outright falsehood that sustained the Nazi Party in Germany.

Thus too we are so often deprived of any analysis that forthrightly names what is being done to us (subjugation, enslavement and extermination as Capitalism inevitably metamorphoses into fascism); why it is being done (no-limit, get-it-before-the-apocalypse-kills-us-all profiteering by the Capitalists); and how we might resist and perhaps even prevail despite the apparent omnipotence granted the Capitalists by their ownership of USian government at every level.

As a result we-all-too frequently feel as if we are drowning in a miasma of hopelessness. And too many of us are yet suffering from the Marxophobia in which we were forcefully conditioned during the so-called “cold war” against the Soviet Union and its allies, especially China, Vietnam and Cuba. Thus despite our growing individual and collective anger, we remain a subjugated people, never mind the fact Marxism provides us not only the one analysis that explains our circumstances as an extreme manifestation of class warfare, but offers us the one proven path to liberation from fascism (the ultimate example of which is how the Red Army liberated all of Eastern Europe from the Nazis in World War II), and also outlines for us the ideological discipline necessary to make it happen.

Meanwhile – despite the regimen of censorship that increasingly limits what we are allowed to read, hear or view from Mainstream Media – the ugly truth occasionally seeps out, ironically in the ongoing propaganda campaign to convince us the Trump-Pence regime is the exception rather than the rule.

Here in the USian homeland, what is evolving into triumphant dominance is a unique hybrid of fascism and Christian theocracy that should properly be labeled JesuNazism. Such is Capitalism as it seeks to ensure its survival by maturing into fascism, chiefly to embrace fascism's definitive brutality to silence and eventually exterminate those of us whose well-being the Capitalists gravely threaten or have already destroyed. The Capitalists believe this will facilitate an USian version of the German Nazis' “final solution,” aimed, exactly as in Nazi Germany, at racial, ethnic and sexual minorities and at anyone who would dare challenge the allegedly divine right of limitless tyranny granted the Capitalists and their vassals by Biblical Capitalism and its Prosperity Gospel. Thus the great relevance of the Moyers and Company report entitled “The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America,” which is intended to subtly assure us the Trump-Pence Regime is an anomaly, but instead shows us it is in fact the hideous fulfillment of the Capitalists' malevolent, “final solution” intent.

Nevertheless, to put “Deep History” in its proper perspective, we need to remember that Bill Moyers was the mouthpiece for President Lyndon Banes Johnson. In a just world, LBJ would have been convicted as a war criminal for the genocidal atrocities committed by the USian imperial military during the Vietnam War. Moyers – whose tactical and strategic brilliance should never be under-estimated – is thus a classic example of how the Capitalists, and particularly their Democratic (sic) Party vassals, protect their despotism by manifestations of pseudo-democracy: in this instance reportage that seems to prove the continued existence of a “free” USian press but which in fact merely reinforces the Big Lie of “our democracy.”

Therefore as an antidote to the subtle submissiveness of“Deep History,” I emphatically suggest also reading “Eugene Debs and the Kingdom of Evil,” Chris Hedges' eloquent elegy for the radical USian socialism of the first half of the 20th Century – the revolutionary ideology the Capitalists formerly believed they had slain forever. But now that socialism is (again) resurrecting itself, our overlords have imposed the Trump-Pence Regime to terrorize us back into abject acceptance of serfdom and slavery.

THE LOCAL POLICE HAVE BECOME CAPITALISM'S ARMY OF OCCUPATION:Killings by federally militarized cops illustrate the murderous depth of our subjugation. And why are the cops as they are? To protect our ever-more sadistic Capitalist overlords, of course. This is truly a Martin Niemoller moment: first they came for the African-Americans...now they are coming for us all. Maybe this senseless murder of a white woman by the sadistic Gestapo-minded thugs who now “police” our communities will at long last awaken us to how Capitalist governance has methodically converted the local police into the Capitalists' army of occupation – a band of thugs who, like their Nazi German predecessors in conquered Europe, can now victimize us to whatever extent they choose. (Aside to those who read the second of these linked reports: yes Marc Ash and I have resolved our differences and I am again occasionally commenting on Reader Supported News threads.)

ANOTHER EXEMPLAR OF OUR SUBJUGATION IS THE HEALTHCARE FIGHT. The intentionally deadly circumstances of USian healthcare – the Capitalists' fight to maintain it as a privilege of their wealth despite an increasingly angry 99 Percent who demand healthcare as a human right – goes hand-in-hand with the skyrocketing incidence of police brutality. The Capitalists, ever more frightened by the anger provoked by their obscene greed, believe if their wealth is to be adequately protected, they need (their) cops to be trained to function as a modern reincarnation of the Waffen SS. Hence not only the ever-expanding death toll of unjustified murders by the militarized police, but – precisely as the Ruling Class intends – how the resultant reign of terror intimidates the population to unquestioning submission. In which context the utterly malicious purpose of reassurance by Mainstream Media the Trump-Pence/Republican effort to abolish healthcare is dead should be obvious.

It is indeed a variant on the most basic strategy and tactic of child abuse: first the abuser savages the child, then just as the child is about to appeal to the authorities for protection, the abuser assures the victim the abuse is ended – when in fact it is merely delayed until the the victim has relaxed into renewed vulnerability.

Fortunately some of us recognize what obtains. Therefore don't be taken in by the reports the JesuNazis are defeated. Yet such Big Lies intended to soothe our rage by convincing us our protests nevertheless succeed when in fact the opposite is true. Though most of already recognize the Capitalists as morally imbecilic pigs, far too many of us are paradoxically too willing to attribute to our enemies a humanity that is notable only by its absence. We are in a war, and until we acknowledge that fact and behave accordingly, we will continue losing.

AGAIN THE HYPOCRISY OF THE DEMOCRATIC (SIC) PARTY IS OBVIOUS in the 180-degree differencebetween its public fury at Bush Regime atrocities and its silent acquiescence (and therefore tacit approval) of atrocities committed by the Obama Regime.

READYING THE HOMELAND FOR GENOCIDE: Mainstream Media now openly characterizes disabled people and drug addicts as unnecessarily burdensome creatures who should be exterminated or at the very least abandoned to die – precisely as the anti-healthcare policies of the Trump/Pence Regime intend.

ALWAYS WORTH READING: once again, too many relevant reports to link individually, hence the URL of the entire site.

APOLOGY: yes this post is three days late. It was delayed by the production problems that afflicted the monthly newsletter I edit, write, photograph, design and produce for the 90-person low-income senior housing community in which I dwell. The problems came about because one of my volunteer contributors shot a must-run photograph framed vertically rather than horizontally. The fault was mine because I did not think to explain to her that publishing vertically framed pictures requires the truly wrenching ordeal of employing wrap-around type on the page that includes the image, which invariably destabilizes the entire newsletter into hopelessly scrambled typographic chaos. Such destabilization always forces me to beg the help of a Nurd to put it right again – a helplessness that (no doubt because it is a manifestation of the same mental disability for which I was savagely punished as a child), invariably triggers anxiety attacks of genuinely indescribable intensity that of course raise my blood pressure to potentially deadly heights and inflame my arthritis to truly excruciating pain. In the July production cycle this happened not once but five times, adding a total of four working days to the process, which thus ended not on Saturday 15 July but rather on Wednesday 19 July, delaying this edition of Dispatches accordingly. Because the true source of the problem is the fact that as a dyslexic I do indeed lack the intellectual capacity for the rote learning required to master even the most rudimentary techniques of computer graphics – never mind I joyfully embraced (and was notably skillful at) the now-obsolete graphic design techniques that preceded computerization – I therefore apologize for this post's tardiness. Presumably by Sunday 23 July Dispatches will be back on schedule.

07/16/2017

IS INVASION AND CONQUEST OF MEXICO NEXT ON THE USIAN IMPERIAL AGENDA? The extreme and continuing militarization of the Mexican border has only one rational explanation: that in its relentless, ever-more-Hitleresque quest to rule the world, and in the equally relentless quest of its Biblical Capitalist overlords for additional slaves and extractive profiteering, the Imperial United States intends to invade and conquer Mexico and undoubtedly the rest of Latin America as well. No doubt too this murderous, ultimately genocidal intent is intensified by white Capitalist fears the Zapatistas might win the Mexican presidency.

MORE WORTHWHILE MATERIAL, way too much to post as individual URLs, is always to be found here.

SUPPRESSED HISTORY: how Russia saved the United States from the British and French invasions that would have enabled the Confederacy to win the Civil War, never mind the Confederates' ideological descendants have since conquered the U.S. by treachery and subversion. (Could this – revenge for how Tsar Alexander II saved the federal union and thus Abraham Lincoln's presidency – be the real motive behind Russiagate? Before you dismiss the possibility as absurd, remember Hillary is not only a "Better-Dead-Than-Red" Goldwater Girl, but also a staunch ally of the JesuNazis, whose ideology of theocratic despotism and white supremacy is directly derived from the Confederate ethos.)

CORVID CONSOLATIONS: Corvids – ravens and crows – are way smarter than we think, which no doubt explains why our always-phenomenological pre-Abrahamic ancestors saw them as exemplars and personifications of divine power as described here and here. In fact my favorite male god has always been Bran the Blessed, whose manifestations include ravens and alders, and whose Mabinogion epic is beautifully retold by Evangeline Walton in The Children of Llyr (Ballantine Books: 1970).

*EXPLANATORY FOOTNOTE: for those of us who are not veterans, “sitrep” is the military acronym for “situation report.”